Operation Cassandra
SESSIONS ORDERS A REVIEW OF PROJECT CASSANDRA
Did the Obama administration pressure the DEA to look the other way when dealing with Hezbollah?
The Obama-era effort, known within the government as Operation Cassandra, targeted illegal drug activities undertaken by Hezbollah – a major source of funding for the Iranbacked and Lebanese-based terrorist organization. A Politico exposé published last Sunday detailed the extent of the operation, but alleged that the Obama administration obfuscated and delayed its progress in order to ensure Iran would sign a nuclear agreement brokered in 2015 with international powers.
BY HAGAY HACOHEN, MICHAEL WILNER DECEMBER 23, 2017 03:51
The Hon. Jody B. Hice of Georgia, on the record, .
According to an Obama administration Treasury official, in her
written testimony to the House Foreign Affairs Committee,
investigations to Hezbollah were tapped down for fear of rocking the boat with Iran and jeopardizing the nuclear deal.
The nuclear deal is already deeply, deeply flawed in so many ways. The Iran nuclear deal apparently took precedence over crippling a foreign terrorist organization directly responsible for the deaths of American citizens and one of the world's largest drug and weapons trafficking networks.
Hezbollah is responsible for procuring parts for Iran's nuclear and
ballistic missile program, the very program that the nuclear deal was supposed to curtail. Hezbollah is supplying parts to them.
Instead of prosecuting the leadership of Hezbollah and shutting down Iran's weapons pipeline, the Obama administration legitimized Iran's nuclear program and let Hezbollah leadership slip through the cracks and let them totally off the hook.
After the conclusion of the Iran nuclear deal, the Obama
administration shut down Project Cassandra. We lost all that we had gained in 8 years of investigations–all the information. We had them in our grasp, Mr. Speaker, after 8 years of investigation. We lost unprecedented insight into these global criminal networks.
https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/2017/12/20/house-section/article/h10335-2